The Dirt and the Pine

Sink like a ship you can sink like a stone
Run like a river and think you were sinking alone
I left the district behind
I fell in love with the dirt and the pine
Til tires and taillights beckoned me back to the road

I met a girl in the salt and the sand in a year
Boys with guitars in the bars play
What they think the girls wanna hear
Just cause you put that guitar in his hand
Now you know that don't make him a man
I was never the best but I'm doing the best that I can

And it winds between these words
When all those lines point back to her
And the faults and the flaws in my design
Are the same ones that brought me to her from the dirt and the pine

I was a ghost on the coast for the past seven years
I was a ghost in the gulf when I could have been here
Darlin I've run away from the wind and the waves over
Most of my time in the south
Make believing that being a man meant that I gotta run
I gotta run without anyone else

And it winds between these words
When all those lines point back to her
And the faults and the flaws in my design
Are the same ones that brought me to her from the dirt and the pine

Foot to the floor and the tour has me leaving today
But the treads on these tires are tired of running away
All of the words I came here to say
This silence speaks better than all of them
I'll stay for the sunrise but these eyes are only for you

I met a girl in the salt and the sand
Arkansas freckles come out in the Florida sun
She kissed me once
And I'm goin back for another one